Mamiaith Nell Dunn on the death of her

on the death of her own son

brilliant mind

This remarkable book adds up

and her affair with Austin’s white father

Ferguson's writing is a unique amalgam of the starkly real – the terrible poverty of wartime Tyneside

Mamiaith Nell Dunn on the death of herNess Owen lives on Ynys Mn off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection, and is partly bilingual. The poems journey widely from family and motherhood, to politics, place and belonging: an underlying connection to the earth of Ness' home, that feeds a longing desire determination to write in the Mamiaith (Mothertongue) that she speaks, but did not learn to write fluently. The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the